<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> <div class="bi">Max Player?</div> <div> <span style="font-style: italic">Oct 15</span> - If he was at all chastened by his experience with Andrei Kirilenko and a maximum-value contract, Jazz owner Larry Miller certainly didn't seem it when asked about the particulars of signing Deron Williams to an extension next summer.</p> </p> Not only would the Jazz be willing to extend Williams a maximum offer of five years and nearly $80 million, but Miller said in an interview the team would be able to do so without exceeding the luxury-tax threshold.</p> </p> "If he keeps making the kind of progress he's making, I couldn't look him in the eye and tell him it was fair that he wasn't a max player," Miller said. "He's not that good yet, but he's got a long ways down the road to getting there." -- <font color="#000000">Salt Lake Tribune</font></p></div></div>
